A FIFA legal delegation, led by Joerg Vollmueller, he completed his first official visit Russiato.
The FIFA team held meetings with the Minister of sport, tourism and youth policy, Vitaly Mutko; speaker for the State Duma Russia's, Svetlana Zhurova; CEO of the local organizing Committee Alexey Sorokin, as well as a legal team of the Government. The meetings were devoted to the development of the legal basis for the preparation and the 2018 FIFA World Cup ™ Russiain hosting.
During the bidding phase, Russia Government has signed a series of guarantees required to stage the FIFA World Cup. In addition, the Government has promised to arrange free transport for fans in the host cities, visa-free entry to the country for match ticket holders and the construction of the stadiums of FIFA World Cup.
Of the local Organising Committee and the Russia Government have established a working group to develop a special law of FIFA World Cup that will govern the preparation and staging of the tournament. It is expected that the law of the FIFA World Cup 2018 will have recourse to the State Duma before the end of the year.
At the end of the meeting with the legal team of FIFA, Minister Mutko said: "we presented the concept of delegation of FIFA's future law. The members of the delegation shared their observations and thoughts but appreciated the overall progress of the work done so far. FIFA's legal Team saw Russia who is working at a good pace and is committed to succeed. "
Joerg Vollmueller, head of FIFA's legal delegation, he added: "we feel very positive about our first visit to Russiawork. We were very impressed by the quality of the preliminary work done by the Loc legal. We are also greatly appreciated the commitment of both the Executive and legislative branches of the Russian Federation to draw up and adopt the law of the World Cup. We have no doubt that FIFA, along with Russia, the will be able to provide a legal framework for effective and mutually beneficial for the World Cup in Russia".
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